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47201 / なはし

Okinawa Prefecture

Naha City

Three arches, a royal mausoleum's gate.

Sogenji Site, three-arched gate

Photo by LordAmeth (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 / Aragaki House

The whole climbing kiln, but for its smoke outlet,is covered by a red-tile roof.

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Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

Aragaki House is a potter's house in Tsuboya that ran a pottery business until 1974. Its climbing kiln, known as the East Kiln, is about 23 m long and 4 m wide. The city says the whole kiln except the smoke outlet at the top is covered by a red-tile roof. It became a national Important Cultural Property in 2002.

  • Kiln about 23 m long, 4 m wide
  • Pottery business until 1974
  • 26 Dec 2002: national Important Cultural Property

02 / Chokotei Causeway

A road of about 1 km linked Naha, once an island in a bay,to the front of Sogenji.

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Photo by Ray go (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Old Naha was an island called Ukishima, the floating island, in a bay fed by the Naha and Asato rivers. The city says Sho Kinpuku built the Chokotei causeway in 1451, linking Naha to the front of Sogenji. The sea road ran about 1 km from Asato Bridge to Ibegama, with Miebashi, a stone bridge, near its middle. The Shinshu Miebashi stele is a city-designated cultural property.

  • Built in 1451
  • About 1 km from Asato Bridge to Ibegama
  • Shinshu Miebashi stele: city-designated, 1977

03 / Yamashita-cho First Cave Site

Fist-sized sandstone found in the cave siteis said to be a pounding stone.

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Photo by OkiRef (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Yamashita-cho First Cave Site is a prefectural historic site. The prefecture says it is the oldest site of Okinawa's Paleolithic age, dated to 32,000 years ago by radiocarbon dating. A fist-sized piece of sandstone found there is said to be a stone tool called a pounding stone.

  • 32,000 years ago (radiocarbon)
  • Fist-sized sandstone
  • 1969: prefectural historic site

Living here

The Yui Rail runs through the prefectural capital.

  • about 320,000 people

Naha is the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, and its railway is the Yui Rail, the Okinawa Urban Monorail. The gateway is Prefectural Office Station, about 4 minutes on foot from City Hall, the city says. In 1954 Naha merged with Shuri City and Oroku Village, and in 1957 with Mawashi City; its area is 39.98 km².

People living here
317,625people
19952020

−0.6% since 2015

301,890 → 317,625

Area
41.46km²

41.26km² of it habitable

2024

Households
144,355households

2.2 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
54,095yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
17 hospitals / 263 clinics

8.8 per 10,000 people

2023

Almost entirely flat.Almost all of it is habitable land (99.5%)
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—93 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Surrounded by 4 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Naha City in Japan26.212°N 127.679°E
TokyoOsakaNaha City
Territory of Naha City
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.5km

豊見城市, 浦添市, 南風原町, 西原町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Naha City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The old first gate of the Sogenji site is a stone gate of three arches with stone walls on both sides, and a national Important Cultural Property since 1972; Sogenji, said to have been founded around 1470 as the mausoleum of successive royal families, was designated a national historic site on 18 September 2025
  2. 02Aragaki House became a national Important Cultural Property in 2002 as a Tsuboya potter's house, and the Yamashita-cho First Cave Site is a prefectural historic site that the prefecture dates to 32,000 years ago
  3. 03Naha was once the island called Ukishima, whose road to Shuri opened with the Chokotei causeway of 1451, and World Heritage sites such as Shuri Castle Site now lie within the city

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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